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The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Numbers 35:13

The cities you select will be your six cities of refuge.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Homicide;   Refuge;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Levites;   Murder;   Punishments;   Refuge, Cities of;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - City of refuge;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Kill, Killing;   Kinsman-Redeemer;   Motives;   Punishment;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Avenger of Blood;   City;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Cities of Refuge;   Pentateuch;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Avenger;   Cities of Refuge;   Manslayer;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Clean and Unclean;   Kin;   Numbers, Book of;   Refuge, Cities of;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Levi;   Refuge;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Cities of refuge;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Cities of Refuge,;   Law of Moses;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - On to Canaan;   Conquest of Canaan;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Homicide;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Asylum;   Avenger of Blood;   Makkot;   Priestly Code;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
The cities which you shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge.
King James Version
And of these cities which ye shall give six cities shall ye have for refuge.
Lexham English Bible
The cities that you are to give will be your six cities of refuge.
English Standard Version
And the cities that you give shall be your six cities of refuge.
New Century Version
The six cities you give will be cities of safety.
New English Translation
These towns that you must give shall be your six towns for refuge.
Amplified Bible
'The cities which you are to provide shall be your six cities of refuge.
New American Standard Bible
'So the cities which you are to provide shall be six cities of refuge for you.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And of the cities which ye shall giue, sixe cities shall ye haue for refuge.
Legacy Standard Bible
And the cities which you are to give shall be your six cities of refuge.
Contemporary English Version
There are to be six of these Safe Towns,
Complete Jewish Bible
In regard to the cities you are to give, there are to be six cities of refuge for you.
Darby Translation
And the cities that ye shall give shall be six cities of refuge for you.
Easy-to-Read Version
There will be six cities of safety.
George Lamsa Translation
And of these cities which you shall give, six cities shall you have for refuge.
Good News Translation
Choose six cities,
Christian Standard Bible®
The cities you select will be your six cities of refuge.
Literal Translation
As to the cities which you shall give six shall be cities of refuge for you.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And of these cities which ye shall geue, there shalbe sixe fre cities.
American Standard Version
And the cities which ye shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge.
Bible in Basic English
Six of the towns which you give will be such safe places;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And of these cities which ye shal geue, sixe cities shall ye haue for refuge.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And as to the cities which ye shall give, there shall be for you six cities of refuge.
King James Version (1611)
And of these cities which ye shall giue, sixe cities shall ye haue for refuge.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the cities which ye shall assign, even the six cities, shall be places of refuge for you.
English Revised Version
And the cities which ye shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe of tho citees that ben departid to the helpis of fugityues,
Young's Literal Translation
`As to the cities which ye give -- six [are] cities of refuge to you;
Update Bible Version
And the cities which you shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge.
Webster's Bible Translation
And of these cities which ye shall give, six cities shall ye have for refuge.
World English Bible
The cities which you shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge.
New King James Version
And of the cities which you give, you shall have six cities of refuge.
New Living Translation
Designate six cities of refuge for yourselves,
New Life Bible
The cities you give will be your six cities where you can go to be safe.
New Revised Standard
The cities that you designate shall be six cities of refuge for you:
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And as touching the cities which ye shall give six cities of refuge, shall there be unto you.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And of those cities, that are separated for the refuge of fugitives,
Revised Standard Version
And the cities which you give shall be your six cities of refuge.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'The cities which you are to give shall be your six cities of refuge.

Contextual Overview

9Then the LORD said to Moses, 10"Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan, 11designate cities to serve as your cities of refuge, so that a person who kills someone unintentionally may flee there. 12You are to have these cities as a refuge from the avenger, so that the manslayer will not die until he stands trial before the assembly. 13The cities you select will be your six cities of refuge.14Select three cities across the Jordan and three in the land of Canaan as cities of refuge. 15These six cities will serve as a refuge for the Israelites and for the foreigner or sojourner among them, so that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may flee there. 16If, however, anyone strikes a person with an iron object and kills him, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death. 17Or if anyone has in his hand a stone of deadly size, and he strikes and kills another, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death. 18If anyone has in his hand a deadly object of wood, and he strikes and kills another, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

six cities: Numbers 35:6

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 6:57 - the city of refuge

Cross-References

Genesis 11:5
Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men were building.
Genesis 17:22
When He had finished speaking with Abraham, God went up from him.
Genesis 18:33
When the LORD had finished speaking with Abraham, He departed, and Abraham returned home.
Judges 6:21
Then the Angel of the LORD extended the tip of the staff that was in His hand and touched the meat and the unleavened bread. And fire flared from the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened bread. Then the Angel of the LORD vanished from his sight.
Judges 13:20
When the flame went up from the altar to the sky, the Angel of the LORD ascended in the flame. When Manoah and his wife saw this, they fell facedown to the ground.
Luke 24:31
Then their eyes were opened and they recognized Jesus-and He disappeared from their sight.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And of these cities which ye shall give,.... Of the forty eight cities they were to give to the Levites, Numbers 35:7,

six cities shall ye have for refuge; which, I think, makes it clear, that not all the forty eight cities were for refuge, only six of them.


 
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